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News Articles: Brittney Griner

Multi-time WNBA All-Star and United States Olympian Brittney Griner (center) was all smiles during a press conference at Ventanas on Tuesday, Feb. 4, 2025. Photo by Kerri Phox/The Atlanta Voice

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Atlanta Dream sign the firm of Griner, Jones & Walker-Kimbrough to shore up lineup, postseason expectations

Griner, Jones, and Walker-Kimbrough were officially announced as the team’s newest members on Tuesday, Feb. 4.

February 06, 2025
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  • Donnell Suggs
Phantom center Brittney Griner (42) stands on the court during the second half of an Unrivaled 3-on-3 basketball game against Mist Friday, Jan. 24, 2025, in Medley, Fla.

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Brittney Griner could face 1-year window to take advantage of new talent on Atlanta Dream roster

New Atlanta Dream star Brittney Griner says her one-year deal was based on more than just positioning herself for a bigger contract when the WNBA's new collective bargaining agreement is expected to take effect in one year.

February 05, 2025
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  • Associated Press
Players and staff of the New York Liberty WNBA basketball team wait to board buses at Harry Reid International Airport, Wednesday, June 28, 2023, in Las Vegas.

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  • Sports

WNBA teams will travel on chartered flights for the next 2 seasons, the league says

Before, teams could travel on chartered flights during the postseason and for back-to-back games in the regular season. Many players said the change will make recovery easier and make them feel safer.

May 10, 2024
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  • Ayana Archie
Brittney Griner on the court in September 2023.

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'I did not feel like a human': Brittney Griner tells NPR about detention in Russia

Griner's new memoir recounts being humiliated by guards, of the pain from squeezing her 6-foot-9 frame into cramped beds and cage, and cutting her locs because it was so cold that her hair froze.

May 06, 2024
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By:
  • Juana Summers,
  • Ashley Brown,
  • and 1 more
During a press conference in Phoenix on Thursday, Brittney Griner told reporters she wasn't planning to play overseas again unless she was invited to the Olympics.

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Brittney Griner says she's 'never going overseas' again after her detention

During her first press conference since being detained in Russia, the Phoenix Mercury star told reporters the only thing that'd take her off U.S. soil is an invitation to compete in the Olympics.

April 28, 2023
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  • Emily Olson
GPB News NPR

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  • World

Brittney Griner is working on a memoir about her captivity in Russia

Saying she is ready to share the "unfathomable" experience of being arrested and incarcerated in Russia, basketball star Brittney Griner is working on a memoir that is scheduled for spring 2024.

April 11, 2023
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  • The Associated Press
WNBA superstar Brittney Griner arrives to a hearing at the Khimki Court, outside Moscow on July 27, 2022. Griner was released in December 2022 after spending nearly 10 months in a Russian prison.

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  • World

Brittney Griner calls for the release of an American reporter detained in Russia

Reporter Evan Gershkovich was detained Wednesday on espionage charges. Griner was released from a Russian prison in December and has advocated for the release of Americans detained abroad.

April 04, 2023
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By:
  • Kaitlyn Radde
Phoenix Mercury guard Diana Taurasi, left, high-fives teammate Brittney Griner during a 2014 WNBA basketball game in Phoenix. Griner plans to return to the Mercury on a one-year contract.

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Brittney Griner signs a one-year contract with the Phoenix Mercury

Griner has re-signed with her longtime WNBA team after missing the 2022 season while detained in Russia. The 32-year-old returned home in December after a high-level prisoner swap.

February 21, 2023
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By:
  • Emma Bowman and
  • Jaclyn Diaz
Phoenix Mercury center Brittney Griner plays in a September 2021 game. In her first public comments since being freed from Russia, she says she will play in the next WNBA season.

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  • Sports

Brittney Griner says she'll play in the upcoming WNBA season

In her first public statement since being freed from Russia, the two-time Olympic gold medalist says she'll play for her team, the Phoenix Mercury, when the season starts in May.

December 16, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
GPB News NPR

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  • World

Latest on Ukraine: A weekly recap and look ahead at Russia's war (Dec. 12)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

December 12, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
American basketball star Brittney Griner gets out of a plane after landing in San Antonio on Friday.

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Brittney Griner is back home in the U.S. after a prisoner swap with Russia

American basketball star Brittney Griner returned to the United States early Friday after being freed in a high-profile prisoner exchange following nearly 10 months in detention in Russia.

December 09, 2022
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By:
  • Jia Chen and
  • Emily Olson
Paul Whelan holds a sign in protest as he awaits his verdict in Moscow in June 2020. He was sentenced to 16 years in prison on charges of espionage.

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  • World

Biden vows to bring longtime detainee Paul Whelan home from Russia too

The former U.S. Marine has been held in Russia since 2018. As supporters celebrate Brittney Griner's release, they — Whelan himself included — are wondering why he was left behind.

December 08, 2022
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  • Rachel Treisman
U.S. basketball player Brittney Griner, who was detained at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport and later charged with illegal possession of cannabis, walks after the court's verdict in Khimki outside Moscow, Russia August 4, 2022. File photo by REUTERS/Evgenia Novozhenina

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Political Rewind: Brittney Griner released; Is GA purple?; Looking ahead to the 2023 legislature

Thursday on Political Rewind: The midterms are over. Today our panel gives final thoughts on what they mean for Georgia's political future. Plus, the legislature starts its 2023 session a month from tomorrow. We discuss what you can expect to see on the docket. But first, we dive into the release of WNBA star Brittney Griner.

December 08, 2022
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  • Bill Nigut ,
  • Natalie Mendenhall ,
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The U.S. traded Russian arms dealer Viktor Bout to Moscow in a prisoner exchange for American basketball player Brittney Griner. Bout is shown here in custody in Bangkok in 2008. After being extradited to the U.S. and convicted of conspiring to kill Americans, he was sentenced to 25 years in prison.

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  • World

Who is Viktor Bout, the Russian prisoner the U.S. traded for Brittney Griner?

Bout is a Russian who was the world's most notorious arms dealer in the 1990s and early 2000s. He was serving a 25-year prison sentence in Illinois before being freed as part of a U.S.-Russia swap.

December 08, 2022
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  • Greg Myre
Liudmyla, left, embraces her granddaughter, Ania, who arrived Saturday on the first Ukrainian Railways train to reach liberated Kherson, Ukraine. The train from Kyiv arrived to jubilation and tears.

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  • World

Latest on Ukraine: Kherson revives as war rounds 9th month (Nov. 21)

Catch up on key developments and the latest in-depth coverage of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

November 21, 2022
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  • NPR Staff
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